Re: SB-Live!

[kswisher@iolinc.net (Swisher, Karl)]

On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, speaks@tca.net wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 20, 1999 at 01:49:19PM -0400, Swisher, Karl wrote:
> > On Sat, 19 Jun 1999, Abe Smith wrote:
> > > has anyone here tried the creative labs beta driver for the sb "Live!" ?
> > > if so, how well, did it work?  on what platform?  etc..
> 
> It installed and ran with no complaints, which is nice.
> cd plays fine and so do waves, although no environmental
> audio that I am aware of. Environmental audio support 
> would be stupendous. Have not tried piping midi through
> it yet.
> 
> Machine is K6/200 64Meg ram with linux 2.0.36


I've made some progress with SBLive.  I've now listened through analog in.  It
sounds great.  I was using a very low noise source,  DAT Master tapes I 
mastered.  I noticed some slight noise on the right channel with the faders
cranked between the tracks.  You wouldn't dare leave them at that level for the
program material.   With the faders down the program was close 100db spl
at my ears and there was no noise between tracks.

I tried a midi file with the midi player that comes with KDE.  I don't think I
was getting midi signal out the cable however I heard music from the 
internal synth.   Midi will take a little more time to figure out because 
of all the possible settings. 

Thanks
Karl